Corpos que se levantam: a mímica corporal dramática como recurso de mediação no ensino de teatro

Abstract

This study investigates Étienne Decroux's Dramatic Corporeal Mime (MCD) as a mediation resource in theater teaching, based on a workshop developed with the Novos Arteiros Theater Group in Salvador. Combining theory and practical experience, the pedagogical process is analyzed from the perspective of the teacher-mediator, highlighting the teaching-learning strategies proposed by the participants, the interculturality mediated between the foreign technique and the sociocultural context of the group, and the advances in bodily expressiveness and scenic creation that resulted in the elaboration of the scene “Corpos que se Levantam” (Bodies that Rise). In this way, it discusses the mediation of knowledge as an active methodology, as well as the importance of practice in theater teaching.